Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ford camp at week's end pounced gleefully on what aides hope will turn out to be a major Carter gaffe. In an interview with Associated Press, Carter suggested that if elected he would try to "shift" the tax burden by boosting rates for Americans earning more than "the mean or median level." This would mean higher taxes for those earning more than $14,000 a year. Chortled James Lynn, Ford's budget director: "An incredible position for a candidate to take." Carter spokesmen charged the G.O.P. with distortion, pointing out that he made clear in the interview...
...flagged once deprived of one powerful, catalytic genius? Whatever the reason, Southern writing today, at the moment of what may be that region's first national triumph in over 100 years, seems stalled between the glorious past and an uncertain future. The past, in fact, has become a burden to its inheritors. On their triumphant march, the older authors left much of the terrain scorched earth. Writers who now elect to deal in moldering mansions and history-whipped alcoholics risk unfavorable comparisons with Faulkner. Indeed, no one who writes on the South can escape Faulkner's shadow. Says...
...population, v. 15% for the nation as a whole; a 38% increase in jobs, largely in manufacturing, v. 28% for the nation; a 55% increase in per capita income, v. 48% nationally. To place these immense changes in perspective, TIME asked the author of the classic work, The Burden of Southern History, to share his insights on the changing identity of his native region, and six other eminent Southerners for their brief personal visions of what lies ahead...
...first 36 years of the republic, the South held the presidency and the predominance of power. It managed to govern the country with some distinction in spite of the burden of slavery on its back and one hand tied behind, the black hand. With the burden removed, with both hands free, it might do even better should its chance come again...
...assists (4). "It's too bad," Ford says, "because we were looking forward to Acorn and Bullard teaming up. I hope Dave will be back some time in October." Bullard and Acorn have combined for a total of 21 goals over the last two seasons, so the scoring burden will rest on Bullard for the first part of the season...